Just found your website and it’s very nice to know I’m not the only one. WCG/Armstrongism helped my mom ruin my life. My mother was an immature 19 when she had me. She and my father were young when they had married and I apparently was in her way. I wasn’t allowed to be anything [...]
maverick007nz@yahoo.co.nz
Attended Auckland, New Zealand
Two things happened recently… I discovered that I was raised in a cult, and subsequently, I happened upon this website.
I would describe my life as not life, but fear of life. Now at 37 years old, fear still controls me. Other people see me as a man, but inside I am [...]
I am spinning right now. I have always felt like such a freak, and I always thought it was a mixture of my up-bringing: the alcoholism, the poverty, the lack of affection, and “the church” was just an ingredient in the painful childhood that I try to forget. The more I read, the [...]
Brisbane Australia
This is the first time that I’ve found a site where I am comforable, lost between the ‘I hate’, the splinter groups, and the “Armstrong lives on” supporters. And I don’t know which group scares me more. Reading the below postings, I too can see my upbringing reflected in the stories.
I loved [...]
Canada
My parents were “called” into the WWCG the early seventies and I was born into it in the mid-70s. My mom’s brothers and sisters, mom and dad, were all upstanding church members. As a kid, I thought we had quite a good extended-family environment. They are all divorced now except the one who attends the [...]
I was 4 when my father came in from working on the car on a cold November night and announced, “We aren’t keeping Christmas any more.” He’d just heard Herbert W. Armstrong on the radio. This was 1962. For the next 5 years, my family ordered literature, including the Plain Truth [...]
I was born into the WCG (I still want to refer to it as “THE CHURCH”, how sad is that?) in 1974.
My father got out of the Navy as a conscientious objector after he heard Herbert W. on the radio.
Thankfully I am by nature a rebellious, questioning kind of person; I refused to go [...]
Don’t print my name or email address, please.
I grew up in the WWCG since I was 4 years old. The only thing going for me was that my dad was not a member. The church we went to was about 60 miles away and we drove it every Saturday come hell or [...]
benttrent@hotmail.com
I am absolutely flabbergasted by this website’s existence. Sue, your story might as well have come out of my mouth. I often told people I’d not wish my upbringing on my worst enemy. I was a minister’s kid that grew up in this church. I was also born in ‘59. My father was “called” into [...]
Brisbane, Australia
rebecca.perkins@bluewave.com.au
I grew up in the church from about the age of 2 years old until I left, whilst still in my first marriage to a church member, when I was about 22. I swing between atheism and alternative/free thinking views on spirituality.
My parents joined the church in the early 70’s in Brisbane, Australia. I don’t [...]